Maher had a few choice words of her own and told the man to go away, but she wasn’t alone in defending Maher’s right to feed her child.

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Other women can be seen in the video coming to her rescue and standing in the gap between the angry café patron and the nursing mom. Soon, security was called.

The man stomped around in what appeared to be a threatening manner. At one point in the video, chest bowed outward, the man walked to a smaller man and the scene became confrontational.

Score one for Target. While the store has been in the headlines recently over bathroom usage policies, the store’s security jumped into action and joined the others in defense of Maher’s right to feed her child. When the man was asked how he could be helped, he demanded a refund for his food purchase, supposedly too sick to consume his food.

A fed up woman stood up to the man, who one might say was employing bully tactics to get his way. She comforted Maher saying, “He has no right to be doing what he’s doing. You have a baby in your hands. This is a beautiful moment right now. If he doesn’t like it he can go.”

She then told the man, “You’re doing that in front of a woman who has a baby. It’s disrespectful sir! All the horror that’s going on in the world, this is the last thing he needs to be worried about,” the woman concluded as the video ended.

The video was posted three days ago and already has seven million views with nearly 80,000 shares. The comments to Maher are overwhelmingly positive.

Maher admitted she was shaken up and disturbed by the confrontation but felt comfort in knowing other mothers came to her rescue.